Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress

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Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress is written by Craig Volden and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1316062368 (ISBN 10) and 9781316062364 (ISBN 13).

This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.